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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1916-07-07, Page 2707; il11 T 11E' CA 1 13 Ail UMW) PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE NO att eeee .r t BY WEATHERB3Y C iESNEY i81 CHAPTER ;. CHAPTER XIX,--(Co.nt'd.) "The crops or the weather, or th 'a'ful expense of foreign travel,' as h is a Scot," said Varney. "The frivolity of women if my fath er chose the subject," said Muriel. "Neither. We discussed apostoli succession, and he claha that th Scotch Kirk has 'got it through aul Johnnie Knox, as he called hila. haven't spent such an interesting hal hour for a long time." Later in the day they came across the pian again in the village of Fur- nas. His donkey was waiting for him outsize` the door of the inn, and he himself was inside having a -real. Davis left the other two to amuse themselves by wandering about the village, whilst he went in to continue the discussion on opostolie succession with the nian who had interested him so much. "Now," said Varney, when he had come to this point, "he's our man, isn't he? It was your saying to Miss Car- rington that perhaps you would dis- cuss John Knox with him that made nee remember him. He's hunting for the diamonds, and he's doing ib on a donkey, because he looks like an Azorean naturally, and every second Azorean peasant you meet is riding one . What did you find out in the yenta ?" Scarborough told him, and at the end Varney said: "Wellgif Carrington's enemy who is well known to me,' the hooded woman, the man in the boat, Mrs Carrington's 'burglar, anti Andrew Gillies, are one and the same person, he's a pretty lively fighter. But will the dates fit?" "Yes," said Scarborough. "You met him' the day before yesterday, the Ring -Rock business was yesterday, and the theft of the :letter was this morning. But if he did get about the island like that, I don't see where we are to put our hands on his shoulder, as you 'said." "In the Furnas district," said Var- ney, "He'll go back thePY{lj?re," ' � +u °sir,. tiiG „ rete, Ina s th.:, 'stones. are, or tilde t :ua potterer„g -aboat there on 1"'u2s' donkeynate was were Mona met Carrinton, you remember, so it's a likely enough place. But as Gil- lies has that letter now, we shall have to be energetic. Are you on duty to- night?" "Yes, from midnight till eight.” "Then I shall have to take first watch in the' country. I'll go and have . supper at the Casa Davis, strap a sleeping bag on my handle -bars, and. ride on afterwards to Furnas. It will be no hardship to spend a night in the open in this weather. "But why not go to bhe inn?" "Better not. Gillies might be there -1 and there's no need to alarm him. If 1 he knows where to look for the dia- mends we had better lee him do it, and watch for him in the process. I'll j camp out. I know the very place—a! stack of maize cobs on the hill -sided from which there is a wide prospect. i Muriel and I sat there for an hour.' I know the trick of waking at day -I light, so if Gillies and his donkey are: in evidence in the morning, I shall be ready for them," "Right" said' Scarborough cheer -I fully. "Pll ride over -and join you; after breakfast. I'mon duty for the' next week, so I shall be able to take I the day wab.hes, if you will do the' nights. It won't matter about my be -I ing sleepy is the instrument room;' there's not often much coming, they other man would wake me. How about you, though ?" "Oh, I shall be all right," said Var- ney. "I'll start now, and you had! better go back to the Chinelas and see that the girls are all right. I suppose Mona will stay the night thee°. We'll tell Montague that she won't return to -night, or he'll fidget. Better tell her, when, you see her to keep her eye of Mrs, Carringbon, and if she sees anything suspicious, she should send a message to you And. there's another thing; when you ride over to join me to -morrow, bring the scratched stone wibh you, and stop at the Casa Davis on the way. Davis knows the island very well, and he may be able .to make a shot at the meaning of 'ache--blue--n, drip." "Right," said Scarborough, "I will,"' "Then, I'll be off. Tanta, old plan; land keep your eyes onMrs. Carring- ton. We've rather left her out of the reckoning, but she's a factor that will have to be counted Don't let her steal a march on you." Scarborough smiled: He did nob ink that Mrs Carrington was likely o be very dangerous now. By allow- , pg` her husband's letter to be stolen ,rem her, she had let the best card in. !+s,`i"he whole game slip oub of her hands, and he therefore rather despised her e powers as a fighter. e His judgment in the matter was premature. He was to learn shorbly - that Rachel Carrington was most of all to be feared at that moment, when s to others it appeared that she was e wholly out of the game. d I f CHAPTER XX. It was nearly nine o'clock when _ Scarborough role up the gravel path to the door of the Chinel as again. ale had been on duty from seven till ten that morning; then had come the message from Elsa, the visib to the yenta in the north road, and the ride back; he had had a tiring day already, and he was due for duty again at midnight. But he hardly knew that he was tired. Te joy of at last doing something, the knowledge that Elsa was now co-operating with him in . the fight, instead of tacitly putting obstacles in the way, the hope that now the misunderstanding between then was at an end a closer understana.ing would follow in its place, when he had put to her the questions he was hungering to put— these ut these things had been tonics, and would have been enough to counter- balance the fatigue of even greater exertions. He hoped to be able to get an hour's sleep yet, before he had to be- gin his watch in the instrument -room; bub first, as Varney hard. said, he must see that the girls were all right. He found them together in the drawing -room and ib seemed to him that Elsa's stiffness with the other girl had worn off considerably since the afternoon. Had anything hap- pened to bring them closer together? 'Or was it simply that Mona's sunny I nature had melted a coldness that I was making artificial, and her persis- tenb offering of friendship had broken down the barrier which Elsa's sensi- tive fancy had set up? Scarborough, seeing them, sitting together, in outward amity at least, I had the thoughtborne in upon him 1 ixretistibly t'h,at' they were surely and obviously meanto be friends. The very differencein the' types of their beauty made them such admirable foils to each other—Elsa's the deli- cate, dainty beauty of carv- ed ivory and Mona's the vivacity of flashing brown eyes, black hair, and rich creamy coloring. The one was an anemone of the woods, fragile but exquisite; the other a rich blossom of the sun- light. "Mother has gone 130 bed with a heatlache," said Elsa, "and Mona is going to stay with me for the night." Scarborough noted with pleasure that she said Mona, and nob Miss Ryan o' Miss de la Mar. "What has happened ?" he asked smiling. Mona caught his meaning at once. "Oh," she said, "we've been through a battle together since was saw you. We went into it. Miss Carrington and Miss Ryan, antd we came out of it Elsa and Mona. Are you pleased'?" "Very," he answered. "But against whom was the battle?" Not against each other ?" "No," said Elsa, "against mother." "That is why she has gone to bed niwith a headache," said Mona laugh - g. "It was a hot engagement, you know, and she was utterly routed. She objected to my presence in the house., and Elsa stuck up boldly for me, and for the rites of hospitality, and -said I should stay. Mrs. Carrington retort- ed that I shouldn't, and they fought it out, and that pale fragile little girl there scored a complete victory. I vas proud of her It was glorious." "Did you sit quietly by and listen?" asked Scarboruogh with a smile. "Five pounds to nothing you didn't." "Oh, I chipped in with a remark or two towards the end," • said Mona gaily, "I couldn; t resist it, you know. But Elsa bore the real brunt of the battle; mine was only a cavalry pur- suit at the finish, to cut up the dis- organized forces of the enemy, and drive the victory home. 1 think Mrs. Carrington's headache is probably rather bad.. At leash that is the only reason I can think of to explain why she made the mistake of losing her temper and . blurting out something that we very much wanted to know." "She told you what was in the let- ter that was stolen?" cried Scarbor- ough eagerly. "She admitted that it contained a plan of the place where the diamonds are hidden," said Mona, "and she seemed to think that it was Elsa's fault that ib had been stolen. I didn't follow her reasoning there, and I took the liberty of pointing out some of her misbakes, • In the first place I remineled her that she went to an keie 1 mr s ''ri•^, f//ill) For Preserying, Use • 1Ai • f/ LILY ": HITS C etRN SYRUP One-third "Lily White" to two• thiriis Sugar, by weight. "Lily White" Corn Syrup pre- vents fermentation and mold brings out the natural flavour of fruits and berries—and makes much more delicious Preserves, Jams and Jellies than you can make with all sugar. In 2, 5, 10 and 20 pound tins —at all dealers. TI•IE CANADA STARCH CO. LIMITED, MONTREAL. 278 w; hotel instead of coming straight home; secondly, she put the plan in her purse instead of handing it over with her other valuables to the cash- ier to keep; thirdly, she had .a large cup of coffee sent up to her the last thing at night, and didn't suspecb.that someone had been paid to put an opi- ate into it, until she awoke next morn- ing about eleven to find that the plan *as gone. Of course the man in the small boat had shadowed her from the Ring -Rock, aand by sleeping in. the hotel she gave him his chance. After all that, instead of abusing herself for her folly, she abuses Elsa. The un- reasonableness of this was also. one of bhe things I took the liberty of point- ing out to her." "On what grounds does she blame you ?" Scarborough asked Elsa. "Because I hid that stone jar at the Ring -Rock at all," said Elsa. "But never mind that. We found out from her thab the plan was not complete, be- cause it gave no inrication of where the place to which it referred was to be found. Father said. he dared not put that information in the letter, be cause it might get into the wrong hands, but that he would convey th' knowledge bo her in some other way. She believes that I have That know- ledge, and. that I ani keeping ' ack from r pun ose3'." "Well:, so you are," aids Sciarbor- ough, smiling. Elsa sprang to her feet. "The scratched stone!" she ex- claimed: `Blue—N. drip!" "Exactly," said Scarborough. "By the way, that lock of yours hadn't been tampered with?" "Ngt, "Good. Wilt you give me the stone to keep for you?" Elsa unlocked the desk and took the stone out. "But, after all, it's unin- telligible," she said. "What does 'ache—blue—N. drip' mean?" "I haven't an idea," said Scarbor- ough, "But if we had the full text, including the words that that idoit of a bean -seller rubbed out with his blouse, I haven't a doubt but that it would prove to be the message that Mrs. Carrington wants." "Well, now," said Mona approvingly "I think that's sense, and I'm surpris- ed Elsa' and I didn't think of it. Do you know it seems to me rather a pret- ty situation. The man who stole the plan won't be able to use it, because he hasn't the scratched stone; we have the scratched stone, but it's no use to us because we can't interpret it with- out the plan; and your mother, Elsa, has lost the plan, and never heard of the scratched stone. It rather molts as though the diamonds stood a good chance of sbaying undisturbed, where they are for a year or two. You and I needn't have bothered about deciding what we were' going to do with therm when we got them!" (To be continued.) • BAR GERMANS FROM FRANCE.. Bill to Exclude Them for Ever is Be- fore French Government. A bill to exclude all Germans from France for ever has been prepared by the French Government. The: measure is shortly to be submitted to Parliament, and will without doubt be passed, as, with the exception of one Socialist organ, all the newspapers enthusiastically endorse it. The newspaperspoint to the Ameri- can law excluding the Chinese from the United States as an analogy. They advocate `that all of the allied countries keep the Germans, Aus- trians and Hungarians out of their territories in the future. e The Journal thinks that the neutral nations should be asked to close their frontiers not only against German inlnigration, but also against Ger- mat travellers. It was Josh Billings who said that silence is the best substitute for wis- dom that has yet been discovered.' Helping Out Grass Feed. Natural grass pastures provide the cheapest .and best feed for all ani- mals, except horses that are expect- ed to do heavy or. fast work, but an addition of oats, bran or even more concentrated feed will bring paying results in nearly all cases and most decidedly when big production of milk or quick fattening is desired. All cattle, from the calf to the steer ready for finishing, need forcing to keep up with the demand of bhe present day. Lambs may be satis- factorily finished on pasture if clover and raps are Adele dto the natural grasses, but better speed can be made if a litble grain is added to the ration. It is doubtful if any of the recent milking records have been made on pasture alone and most of the good dairymen use soiling crops and grain or millfeed to keep up the milk yield of the whole herd. Hogs, have as a general thing been deniai pasture to boo great an ex- tent, some people refusing to let them have a run on grass, even for exer- cise; but the other extreme should not he ,jumpd to if best results are desir- ed. Bogs at all ages may be kept on pasture to their advantage, but "kept" must not be taken to mean maintained, or improved. A run on clover or rape plus milk and some grain, will grow the animal satis- factorily to within a few weeks of butchering, when they should be pei ned, not too closely, and finished on good hard feed. Ab present prices for hogs, a great deal of wheat can be fed to advantage in the pro dudtion of pork, but judgment must be used re- garding the size of each feed. Ground wheat alone cannot be considered a satisfactory grain ration for hogs; as it is likely to bring on digestion trou- bles, but mixed with other grains it gives good results. Horses and colts at pasbure make their best and quickest growth when some grain is fed with the pasture grass and it is generally understood that the colt should be encouraged to eat oats, preferably crushed and mix- ed with bran, early in his lifetime. egleraien it. comes to he feeding of heroes that are at her work for long ,lours as are farm horses during near- ly the whole of the summer season, it is necessary to increase the amount of grain fed, to double or more than double the amount fed for ordinary maintanence. The amount prescribed in such a case by the Dominion An- imal Husbandman, is 1%4 pounds per 100 lbs., of horse, of a mixture of 85 per cent. oats, and 15 per cent, bran.. To keep the work horse in good health, I it is also necessary that he be fed a bran mash at regular interval3. Sat- urday night being the time best suited for this, on account of the day's rest that follows. Turning out the work horse to . grass, on Sundays, work all right if the grass is not too soft and if the • flies do not trouble the animal. This scheme works well with horses that are given to stocking up when kepb in 1 the stall for long after hard work, but such a condition should by rights be made impossible by a treatment for the benefit of the blood. The idea of trying to save grain by pasturing the working horse over night, should not be consedered, and it is a question if he does as well outside, as in the stable, even if fed his full rabion be- fore being turned out. With this last 'mentioned practise there is also the extra work and time of the team- ster to be considered, and the horse is likely to get better treatment during the work if the 'man who drives him starts off in the morning in a satisfied frame of mind. A cool, clean stable, screened so as be keep out flies and regularly dis- infected with a wholesome -smelling wash, will make the horse more com- fortable at night, than will the aver- age pasture field. Points in Cattle Feeding At the end of the third year of fattening steers in the open air at Lacombe, Alberta, Mr. Hutton, the superintendent, draws the following deductions: 1. Three-year-old steers seen bet- ter adapted to straight wheat feeding than are two-year-old steers. 2, From the results of the three years' work, it is evident that low- grade grains may be made to bring the producer a higher price per bushel sold through steers than will high- grade grains sold through the eleva- tors. 8, Hay, green feed and straw amy be profltablyfed at :home. 4. From experimental work conduct- ed with grain plots at this station, a valuation of the manure produced 'through feeding cattle at $1 per ton applied is warranted. The fertile Soil 8f our. Western prairies will not retain its fertility indefinitely without a return of at lease a portion of th constituents drawn fro mit in the pro» duction, of erops. 5. It is not necessary . to provide an extravagant equipment in order to be able to undertake the sntiefactory feeding of steers for the production of beef in this climate. 6. Bankers consider the lending of money for bhe purpose of feeding cats tie asafe loan. 7, From the figures submitted it would appear wise for the breeder to be a feeder also 'and market his pro- duct in finished, condition. Requirements of a Good Animal. An animal is like a machine. A good machine requires that each part be of good material and just the right weight and strength. The good ani- mal must- have itsparts developed in the righb proportion to make the type desired. The adaptability of a ma- chine and the proportioning of its parts can largely be determined by looking at it. However, the make of the machine is the guarantee as to its possessing or lacking quality. Like- wise in the animal a good deal can be determined as to its type by looking at it. Its real quality, however, can not be debermined in this way. To get at this it becomes necessary to go further back. The quality was put into the animal by its parents, lbs grandparents, its greatgrandparents, etc. This makes it important to know that all these parents hall; qual- ities that would contribute to the malting of a good animal of the type wanted. A predigree is a scheme. for keeping track of th eparents of an ani- mal. It is a guarantee of what is back of the animal, of what has con- tributed to its make up. It is this fact that makes the pure-bred ani- mal valuable.—North Dakota Eperi- ment Station. Windbreaks Pay Dividends Windbreaks are usually more or less ornamental on a farm, and add to the contentment of the owner. Bub it is not generally' known. that windbreaks actually pay dividends: It must 1 admitted that windbreaks occupy space that could be profitably devoted to agricultural crops, and that ti, roots of the trees and their shade render a strip of ground on either side of the windbreak relatively un- productive. Yet in spite of these drawbacks, efficient windbreaks do more good than evil. The windbreak reduces the velocity of the wind, and, consequently, the loss of soil water from evaporation from the soil surface and from the field crops. This is equivalent to ad- ditional rainfall, just as "a dollar sav- ed is a dollar made." It seems that the greater yield of field crops and ap- ples behind the protection of a good windbreak is enough to warrant every farmer in planting windbreaks.—W. J. Morrill, in Farm and Dairy. FEEMZEMMTEMMIefialiMeellaXeMill The best sugar f©r the sugar bowl is Its purity and "fine" granulation give it the highly sweeten- ing power. Itdis- solves instantly in your teacup or on your breakfast cereal. 2 and 54b Cartons 10 and 204b Bags 3 "Te Ail-. mpose Sugar" Malaria. • A 4ow years ago, before We len that malaria was always caused by the bite of a mosquito people used to ani. tribute every fleeting indisposition ie "4 touch of malaria;'' We know noW that We cannot have a touch of male aria without the touch of the insect that carries it; 'hut the phrase is a convenient one, and the belief in it dies hard. It is quite possible to mistake oth- er things for malaria, and when there is any difi'iculty in making a diagno- sis a microscopical examination of the Wood should be made. The charact- -. eristie malarial parasite will be found -if it is that which is making • the trouble, The sufferer may have typhoid fever or tuberculosis or same,- septic condition of the blood. If" so, it would be a pity to waste valuable time making guesses at a 'diagnosis that the blood examination would Make certain at once. Malaria yields to proper treatment and is not often fatal, especially in nontropical countries. The disease is most likely to atitack the very young or the very old, those who have had time to become acclimated to a new pince' of residence, and those who live in hard circumstances --such es the poor and soldiers in trenches. Malaria is One of bhe disorders that 'vire know how to prevent. We must destroy the mosquito that carries it, and until that is ,done we must by to keep it from getting at human be- ings. The Anopheles mosquito us- ually bites between sunset and sun- rise, and it is at night, therefore, that we must be most careful. The best way is to have our houses and porches thoroughly screened. Sleeping in the -. open air it a royal road to health, but not if we share the open air with the Anopheles. It is hot enough to screen the windows, for the insects may gain access somewhere else, and then the bedroom will become merely a trap to keep them in. Windows and doors and chimney- openings both upstairs and down—nothing must be forgotten. —Youth's Companion. Takes Thirty -Six Bites. A good deal of cheap fun was pok, ed at Gladstone some years ago in consequence of a statement which he made, that before swallowing his food he invariably gave every particle 26.:' bites, says London Answers. But it was evident, even to the humorist'-°, that the "Grand Old Man," owed much of his splendid vittality to his cbreful mastication, and his words caused many furiously to think. By the manner in which people who ought to know better "bolt" their food, one might fairly infer thatthey believe their stomachs to be construct• ed on the same principle as that cif a lobster, and contain teeth to fac:litato the process 'of digestion. Experience has shown that wh-n food is properly masticated about one- third less is required than when it is insufficiently dealt with by the teeth What happens is that by effective chewing much more nutriment is ex- tracted, and therefore less food need be eaten, a desirable result nowadays. GERMANS USE BLOOD AS FOOD. A Professor Explains How It May Be Made Palatable. In the Kolnische Zeitung great prominence is given to the researches of a physician named Grotthcf, who has been investigating the properties of the blood of slaughter cattle and its suitability for human food. The Kolnische Zeitung has insisted since the outbreak of the war that blood ought to be employed for this purpose. It now states that blood, according to the best physiologists, is the purest, strongest, and most nutritive food to be found in nature. Privy Councillor Kobert,, the eminent Rostock profes- sor of physiology, says that it is the most valuable food we have, and that if some process were invented by which it could be rendered free of eel -thin defects and made palatable it would be an enormous addition to the national stores of food. Dr. Grotthoff's process is not very lucidly described, but Ave gather that the blood is fermented for two hours until the watery particles have been removed. What is left is of the con- sistency of beef and• may be made perfectly dry by gentle pressure. It " keeps " well, and is without tante or smell. Moreover, there are no reith °logical germs in the mass. Grott- hoff's chief merit lies in his preserv- ation of the albumen and other food° properties in the blood. The Wool • can also be reduced to powder an.! packed in tins. Garottho:ir thinks that the best use to 'which the blood can ;1,0 applied is to mix it in powd'rc oro with sausages, bread, bi:en't, ocoa, and chocolate. Flo adds; th7 ehivepletidreni7k that the heaviest. ecat:r eel that a moderate ]mixture of }: • :�' r1 their food gives them a fedi: ,' n.